“Financial crises require governments.” — Timothy Geithner Quote

“Financial crises require governments.”

“But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.”

“I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.”

“There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.”

“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.”